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Managing Risk in Farming: Concepts, Research, and Analysis

Harwood, Joy L.; Heifner, Richard G.; Coble, Keith H.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1999

The risks confronted by grain and cotton farmers are of particular interest, given the changing role of the Government after passage of the 1996 Farm Act. With the shift toward less government intervention in the post-1996 Farm Act environment, a more sophisticated understanding of risk and risk...

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Basel II and the Capital Requirements Directive: Responding to the 2008/09 Financial Crisis

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper addresses factors which have prompted the need for further revision of banking regulation, with particular reference to the Capital Requirements Directive. The Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), which comprises the 2006/48/EC Directive on the taking up and pursuit of the business...

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When risk weights increase the risk: some concerns for capital regulation

Varsanyi, Zoltan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this chapter I argue that as a response to the introduction of capital requirements in the form of risk weights investors might potentially choose riskier portfolios than before the regulation – this is, presumably, not what the regulation intends to achieve. That is, while regulation most...

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The growing importance of risk in financial regulation

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper traces the developments that have contributed to the importance of risk in regulation. Not only does it consider theories associated with risk, it also discusses explanations as to why risk has become so important within regulatory and governmental circles. Two forms of risk...

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Între Anteu şi Icarus

Daniel, Dăianu - In: Revista OEconomica (2012) 02

I made reference to the mythological Antheus to remark that the economy is better to have roots to increase its robustness, to protect it from adverse shocks. What would these roots be? Some are of an institutional nature and they determine the quality of public policy, the ability to respond to...

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Mobilising Investment in Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Infrastructure

Kennedy, Christopher; Corfee-Morlot, Jan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2012

finance LCR infrastructure in low income nations is challenging due to basic banking services, lack of non-bank financial … sector, the paper reviews financing mechanisms that help to increase access to commercial banks, bond finance, project … finance and equity finance in developing countries. Green bonds are an example of a financing mechanism with strong potential …

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Towards a Green Investment Policy Framework: The Case of Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Marchal, Virginie; Kauffmann, Céline; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2012

infrastructure, to finance a transition to a LCR economy and greener growth. This report advances a “green investment policy …

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An Extension of the Internal Rate of Return to Stochastic Cash Flows

Hazen, Gordon - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 1030-1034

The internal rate of return (IRR) is a venerable technique for evaluating deterministic cash flow streams. Part of the difficulty in extending this measure to stochastic cash flows is the lack of coherent methods for accounting for multiple or nonexistent internal rates of return in...

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Revisiting the socialist calculation debate: the role of markets and finance in Hayek’s response to Lange’s challenge

Sotiropoulos, Dimitris; Auerbach, Paul - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2012

socialist alternative. Second, the Austrian approach only surreptitiously concedes the key role of finance in its defence of the … first place. The latter point invites us to reconsider the place of finance in various schools of economics in mainstream …

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The Lehman Sisters Hypothesis: an exploration of literature and bankers

van Staveren, Irene - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2012

achieve top positions in banking. At the same time, the analysis indicates that women perform better than men in finance and …

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